A summer camp caretaker is horribly burnt and disfigured thanks to a prank gone wrong by some of the campers. Years later he is back to terrorize a nearby summer camp and confront one of the campers responsible for his condition.

As a preteen, there were two films that traumatized me: Stephen King's It and a film involving death by garden shears. I never figured out what that movie was because I was at a sleepover and immediately ran upstairs…

If you're a fan of classic slasher horror, this is one of the best. Horny, gory and full of teens making terrible decisions, The Burning feature all kinds of faces and names in front of and behind the camera that will remind you that everyone was young once but NEVER play a prank on somebody that involves fire. Just don't.

It's impossible to watch this film and not compare it to Friday the 13th, in that most people go into The Burning having already seen the former, myself included. I was originally skeptical, as it does hit a lot of the same beats and tropes. But I was also surprised, seriously.

I can't explain it any better than explaining how this film handles...well, nothing. In Friday, they would show Alice making coffee or Marcie taking a shower or the counselors…

Oh Harvey Weinstein. A good producer, you are. A good screenwriter... you are not.

But at least this movie about a deformed camp counselor murdering campers is delicious junk food, and it's a shame that it was buried by Friday the 13th. Well, kind of a shame -- as fun as it is, I think we're better off without a sequel.

A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.

I saw this years ago, but when the new 4K restoration was shown as part of Grimmfest on my birthday, I was always going to go. You forget how times have changed in regards to gender politics, I'm no way part of what people would call the SJW world, but there…